Oil on canvas

Measurements 131 × 179 cm

Within original frame, it is signed at lower left, on the bed, with the date 1792 and mention of the city of Rome, a fact that links the painting to Antonio Canova’s important friendship and protection of his countryman painter who had just returned from his stay in Naples and was about to leave for London.
Bibliography: E. Lucchese, in Antonio Canova and Neoclassicism in Lucca, edited by V. Sgarbi, Laurenzana 2023; E. Lucchese, Rome 1792. Domenico Pellegrini and Canova, Painters of Venus, in press. Exposures: Lucca, Cavallerizza, 2023-2024.
The work is accompanied by a study by Professor Enrico Lucchese.